mountain sleep

"Xu-zi-hang-"

Xu Zihang, who was still stuffed with corn buns, heard the shout from downstairs, and quickly pushed away his mother's hand that handed over the soy milk, and rushed off the table impatiently, but was grabbed by the arm by Chen Siyi: "Go after drinking, what's the hurry."

Xu Zihang frowned and took the soy milk, and swallowed the steamed buns in his mouth with difficulty. The shout downstairs had been repeated for the second time before he rushed to the window to respond: "Come on!"

After gulping down the soy milk, Xu Zihang wiped his mouth, grabbed his schoolbag, and walked towards the door. He stuffed his feet into his shoes that he never untied the laces, walked down the stairs in two or three steps, and told Chen Siyi that he had just eaten his fill. The rambling chatter was left behind.

Yao Ge stopped shouting when he saw the head popping out from the third floor, looked up with his hands on the strap of his schoolbag, and began to count silently.

"1, 2, 3...139..."

"Let's go!" Xu Zihang, whose schoolbag was still hanging on his arm, finally heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Yao Ge, slowed down, and carried his schoolbag on his back.

Yao Ge handed over the big white rabbit toffee he had been holding in his hand: "Here."

Xu Zihang took it and opened the candy wrapper and threw it into his mouth: "I forgot to ask my mother to sign the paper yesterday, so you can sign it for me when I go to school."

Did you really forget?

Yao Ge replied, "Oh. Did you solve the question you asked me yesterday?"

"Well, I figured it out twice myself." Xu Zihang yawned, "It's so annoying, I have an art class again today, I hate Xiao Wang—oh, Li Chengjin is in front, Li Chengjin—"

Xiaopingtou, who was pushing the cart in front, turned around and saw the two of them, and raised his chin like a child: "Do you want to take my car?"

Yao Ge's heart was raised, and his hand that was holding on to the strap of his schoolbag was tightened.Xu Zihang looked at Li Chengjin's bicycle without a back seat, and thought of the pain from stepping on it, he grinned and said, "Forget it."

Yao Ge was relieved when he heard his refusal, and raised the topic to try to get Xu Zihang's attention back: "Would you like to go play by the river in the evening tomorrow weekend?"

"Okay, I'll ask Dongzai when I get to class."

"it is good."

After entering the senior grade, he didn't know anyone in the unfamiliar class. After a whole year, Yao Ge only talked to a few people around him.

Yao Ge has the aura of a good student. He looks fair, his sneakers are always clean, and he has two sweet dimples when he smiles. The teachers all like him.

However, in his heart, Xu Zihang is the kind of person he admires and yearns for the most. He seems to have a good relationship with everyone, and he always fights with a group of people after class, which is completely opposite to him.

Yao Ge had already found out that he and Xu Zihang were on the way, but usually he would be two steps behind when he met his classmates, so as to avoid the trouble of exchanging pleasantries, so he never said hello.

The first time I met Xu Zihang was in the second semester of the fourth grade.Once, Yao Ge forgot to bring his school badge, and was almost registered by the disciplinary committee at the school gate.Yao Ge was in a hurry to find the school badge that should have been pinned to his chest, Xu Zihang, who had already crossed the school gate, came back, wrapped his arms around his shoulder, and gave him the school badge in his heart: "Your school badge is with me, let's go. "While talking, he winked at the disciplinary committee member. The disciplinary committee member was a girl he knew. He was amused by him, and he let Yao Ge go after a few reproaches.

Yao Ge was taken away by him, and he looked down at the school badge in his hand: "Then what should you do?"

"I'll ask them to get one later. My friend has two, so you can keep this one. The discipline has become stricter recently. If Lao Zhao finds out that our class has been recorded, he will go crazy."

After Xu Zihang said this, he saw his familiar partner in front of him. He put down his hand on Yao Ge's shoulder, greeted the person in front, turned his head and said to Yao Ge, "I'm leaving first!" and waited for him in front of him. Several boys walked away together.

Yao Ge didn't even have time to say a word, and his palms holding the school badge were slightly sweaty.

After that day, every day on the way to school, Yao Ge would unconsciously start to notice if there was Xu Zihang around. If not, he would slow down and wait to see if he was behind.

He couldn't explain why he did this, maybe he wanted to say thank you to him, or maybe it was the idea of ​​wanting to be friends with this person all the time.

It was noon on a Tuesday, and no one expected that the rope of fate would quietly rise in the rainstorm.

Xu Zihang, who took a nap, got up late, and when he hurried out, he had already forgotten his mother's instructions that it would rain in the afternoon and remember to bring an umbrella. The worst thing was that he had almost run to school, and he was still walking away from the door. Under the bridge opening for 5 minutes, the pouring rain poured down impatiently.

Xu Zihang looked down at his mother's newly washed shoes, they would definitely be drenched if they rushed out.Just as he was worrying, someone approached him with an umbrella on his head.Xu Zihang looked sideways, it was Yao Ge, the young master of his class.

For Xu Zihang, the establishment of friendship is very simple, you can make friends with just a few words.After Yao Ge held an umbrella for him, he immediately classified him as someone who could make friends.

"Great, it's so late, I thought I wouldn't be able to meet someone I knew, but I'm glad I met you."

Hearing what Xu Zihang said, Yao Ge smiled shyly, revealing the dimple on his left cheek. He also walked over slowly, thinking that he would not meet Xu Zihang today.

"Where do you live? Why is it so late?" The rain made their voices unreal, but fortunately the two were close.

Yao Ge said, "Da Tong Road."

"That means walking with me, I don't seem to have seen you before." Xu Zihang took Yao Ge's hand holding the umbrella handle, "You are too crooked, don't always cover me."

"Thank you for the school badge last time." This sentence was muttered in Yao Ge's mouth for a long time before he could say it.

Xu Zihang had put this matter behind him a long time ago, and he remembered it only when he mentioned it: "Hey, it's a small matter. If you go the same way, we can go together after school."

Yao Ge heard this sentence, turned his head to Xu Zihang with a smile and rolled his eyes, a little excited: "Okay."

There are some rains that are so strange, and when they walk into the school gate, they suddenly stop. If it is not for the puddles on the ground and the smell of green grass in the air, it seems that nothing has happened.

In the class that the two of them stepped on that day, Yao Ge's deskmate Shu Xin asked him in surprise why he would go with Xu Zihang.

"bumped into."

"Oh. I haven't talked to them much." Shu Xin put the math workbook in front of Yao Ge, leaned over and said to him, "Please help me to see if I wrote this question correctly. "

Yao Ge stuffed his schoolbag into the drawer, he was a little absent-minded, he didn't understand the exercise questions pushed by Shu Xin twice, those familiar descriptions scattered and jumped in his head.

"Xiaohua's home is 2300 meters away from the school, and one day he was moving at a speed of 80 meters per minute..."

How far is Xu Zihang's home from the school?He spends 20 minutes a day.At this speed, it's only 1600 meters.

"Huh? Isn't that right?" Shu Xin touched Yao Ge's arm with the pen tip.

"Ah? Oh." Yao Ge closed his eyes and focused, "Well, yes, but the teacher said to use the method of setting X, you can just change it."

"Hey, I'm not used to setting x yet." Shu Xin was mumbling, when Teacher Chen from the Chinese class walked in. She looked up and put away her math homework, "Thank you."

Yao Ge nodded, took a pen to black out the illustrations in the Chinese textbook, and was still counting in his head, 1600 meters, not long, the playground is 400 meters in one lap, and it can be reached in four laps.

"Yao Ge, come and recite it."

Yao Ge was surprised, but he didn't panic when he was named: "Looking horizontally, it looks like mountains and peaks, and the distance and height are different..."

"Okay, please sit down." The Chinese teacher nodded, "You must concentrate in class and take notes along with it."

Yao Ge lowered his head slightly, his ears were blushing from being criticized for the first time, Shu Xin who was next to him stuck out his tongue at him, and pushed his notebook to copy for Yao Ge.

After finally getting out of class, Yao Ge went to see where Xu Zihang was at the first time. The owner of the seat had already jumped out of the classroom with others.Yao Ge turned around and took out his copybook to practice calligraphy.

"Here, here you are." Suddenly being pressed against his face by a bottle of ice water, Yao Ge trembled in fright, and a long line was drawn abruptly on the character "Xing" he was writing.

"Hahahahahaha..." Xu Zihang was amused by his reaction, "It's too cold, isn't it? What are you writing?" He leaned over to look, "You're still practicing calligraphy, no wonder your handwriting is beautiful." Yao Ge My words are always posted at the door of the class for people to watch, my own words, hey, I get a headache just thinking about them.

"Ah. Give it to me?" Yao Ge was a little dazed, the bottle was still dripping, and his desk became wet.

"Thank you for the umbrella, otherwise I will be scolded by my mother when I go back." Xu Zihang opened his own water and took a sip, patted Yao Ge on the shoulder, and went back to his seat in the back row while talking, "Don't be disgusted, I I don’t have much pocket money every day, so I’ll treat you to a good drink in the future.”

Yao Ge touched the bottle with his fingertips, and the refreshing coolness spread from his fingertips to the bottom of his heart.

From the beginning to the end, Peng Dong didn't know why Xu Zihang and Yao Ge suddenly got so close, he still had a little taste for it.You must know that he and Xu Zihang have been classmates since kindergarten. Although many of them play together, he still has confidence in the position of best friend.However, since Yao Ge joined, the balance seems to have tilted.

When Xu Zihang said that he would wait for Yao Ge to go with him when school was over that day, Peng Dong was dumbfounded for a while, thinking he had misheard the name, after all he had never spoken to Yao Ge.They used to joke that those in the first row were the teacher's darlings and should not be profaned, especially that Yao Ge.

Yao Ge's nickname is Young Master, which is not a compliment. It happened during the cleaning at the beginning of the fourth grade. He was a boy standing in front of the bucket, cocking his fingers and not wanting to touch the dirty water. The class teacher next to him couldn't stand it. It's over, and while scolding the young master who doesn't touch the spring water with his fingers, he drives him to sweep the floor.

In addition, Yao Ge's obsession with cleanliness is obvious to all. When someone accidentally steps on his shoes, he just squats there and wipes them non-stop, which is very embarrassing for people.So the other boys called Yao Ge the young master in private.

But to Peng Dong's surprise, Yao Ge was not as arrogant as he had imagined when getting along with him, and immediately said that he would treat the two of them to snacks.

When Yao Ge said that he wanted to invite Xu Zihang and Peng Dong to eat hot chicken tendon, he was actually afraid of being rejected.He dilly-dally packed his things after school today, thinking that Xu Zihang would forget the promise to walk with him after school, but he did not expect him to.

"Eat, thank you." Peng Dong was the quickest to agree, and Xu Zihang immediately nodded.Yao Ge happily bought three bags, one for each person.

"It's so spicy!" After eating three sticks, Yao Ge's mouth was red from the heat.

"Hahahaha, you got it all over your mouth." Dong Zai, who ate half a packet of spicy food, was so breathless that he laughed.

Xu Zihang was very calm: "I think it's okay, it's a little sweet." Seeing Yao Ge's wide-eyed expression in disbelief, he smiled proudly, "I eat spicy food very much. I have been eating chili bibimbap since I was a child."

"Excellent." Yao Ge licked his fingers, took out another one from the bag, and handed the rest to Xu Zihang, "Help me eat, I can't eat any more."

Xu Zihang took it bluntly: "Tomorrow I will treat you to a cup of noodles. I know there is a restaurant on Shangxi Street that is particularly delicious."

Cup noodles are rice noodles served in disposable cups. Yao Ge often saw others holding a cup on the way home from school. At first he thought it was a bit dirty to eat like this, but after hearing what Xu Zihang said, he looked forward to the next day.

"I'm here, let's go here." Peng Dong took the lead to say goodbye to them at the intersection.

"Goodbye." Xu Zihang waved to him with the last hot chicken tendon in his mouth, then turned his head and asked Yao Ge, "Do you have any paper? Where is your Datong Road?"

"Jinshan District—is it enough?" Yao Ge watched Xu Zihang wipe his mouth and then his fingers, and a piece of paper was crumpled into a ball that was dyed red.

"Enough. Then you can walk to my house with me."

"Yes." Yao Ge pulled his schoolbag up, and then said, "I can ask you to go to school."

"Ah?" Xu Zihang thought for a while, but he didn't feel surprised by this sudden proposal, "That's fine. But don't be too early, I won't be able to get up, just call me downstairs."

Yao Gesong breathed a sigh of relief and rolled his eyes: "Okay."

"By the way, what's your homework today?"

"Which one? Mathematics is Chapter 8 after class practice questions 1-15, and Chinese is the fifth paragraph of Lesson 10 after writing the paper—"

Xu Zihang scratched his head: "Stop, stop, stop, I can't remember what you said, or you can give me your home number, and I'll call you when I get home." Seeing the other party nodding, Xu Zihang took off his schoolbag and flipped through it from inside. He took out a notebook with curled corners, and took out a mechanical pencil from the corner, "Let's talk."

While reporting the numbers, Yao Ge stared at the corners, wanting to smooth them out, and the eraser on the mechanical pencil is too dark, right?

From that day on, after two semesters of getting along, Yao Ge and Xu Zihang can be said to be inseparable.

"What are you thinking?" Yao Ge came back to his senses after being pushed by the person next to him, he let out an ah, and asked Xu Zihang, "What did you just say?"

Xu Zihang looked at him strangely: "Are you stupid? I didn't say anything."

Yao Ge muttered: "You're stupid." He turned and took off his schoolbag, took out two new fountain pens from the pencil case as he walked, and handed them to Xu Zihang, "I bought them yesterday, don't always borrow pens from others. "

Xu Zihang's problem of forgetting and forgetting will never get better. Yao Ge often sees that the dictation has begun, and he is still wandering around to borrow pens.

"I knew you were the best for me!" Xu Zihang wrapped his arms around Yao Ge's shoulders and held him in his arms, rubbed his hair vigorously, holding the two pens joyfully for less than two seconds , I reacted, "No, I might forget it after you gave it to me, and my pens disappeared inexplicably."

Xu Zihang thought for a while: "I'll keep it with you. I want it from you every day, and you take it back in the evening. I'll buy some more after school today and keep it with you."

Yao Ge thinks this is a good idea, anyway, he will not forget: "Well, then you can just take it if you want it."

So today Xu Zihang changed from borrowing pens from everywhere to only taking Yao Ge's pens.

Shu Xin was slightly dissatisfied with this, she never liked Xu Zihang's group of noisy people, especially that Peng Dong, who was very annoying, always tearing off the rope of her little vest hanging around her neck.Since Yao Ge played with Xu Zihang, he often stopped doing the questions in his seat after class, and was either called to the canteen or went to the toilet together, so that she couldn't find a chance to ask for homework.

"Why doesn't Xu Zihang bring a pen every day, why does he use yours?" Taking advantage of Xu Zihang's absence, Shu Xin complained to Yao Ge rather resentfully, "Don't be so talkative."

Yao Ge has a quirk. Everyone sitting at the front and back tables knows that what belongs to him can only be used by him. If he borrows someone else's pen or ruler, he will not put it in the pencil case, but put it in his school bag separately. Here, take it out when someone asks.But today Xu Zihang actually opened his pencil bag to take things from it. Shu Xin saw it, and felt that Yao Ge was bullied and still suffering.

Yao Ge flipped through the test paper that Xu Zihang handed him just now, and slightly covered his hands to imitate the adult's handwriting and wrote the word "read": "His pen is here for me."

"Ah?" Shu Xin wanted to ask what, but the teacher had already come in, so she had no choice but to shut up and start her morning reading.

"Everyone knows that the sports meeting is about to begin. We are going to publish a new blackboard newspaper, and Zhang Si and Yao Ge will be in charge." Zhang Liying, the head teacher, looked down at her notes, "And which group was the one that swept the floor yesterday? Cleanliness was named and criticized. Re-sweep today."

Yao Ge's first reaction when he heard that the blackboard newspaper was about to be published was to turn his head to look at Xu Zihang. His plan by the river might have failed, and he probably couldn't leave with Xu Zihang during this period of time.

As soon as Zhang Liying finished speaking, Peng Dong who was next to Xu Zihang leaned in softly, and kicked Lin Fengqi and Li Chengjin at the front table: "It's so unlucky!" The first two also sighed.

Xu Zihang didn't care, he was lying on his stomach bored, when he saw Yao Ge turn around, he mouthed: "Paper."

Yao Ge folded the paper in his hand, secretly put it behind his back on the tabletop of the back table, and passed it all the way to Xu Zihang's hand. After opening it, there was a note: "You go first in the evening, I want to publish a blackboard newspaper."

Xu Zihang sat up straight, and replied after that sentence: "Look at the lower right corner of the blackboard."

Xu Zihang touched the back of Lin Fengqi at the front desk with the tip of a pen: "Help me to Yao Ge." The refolded note in his hand was stuffed into the hand that was stretched behind his back.

Yao Ge didn't expect that there would be a reply. After opening it, he looked at the blackboard, and there were three large characters of Xu Zihang in the column of "Students on Duty" in the lower right corner.The tip of his pen touched his lips, and he had no impression that Xu Zihang swept the floor yesterday.

[You escaped sweeping the floor yesterday? ]

[We scanned between classes!I wanted to take out the trash this morning, but who knew I was caught! (Crying Ultraman)]

It's really ugly.

[Is the pen easy to use]

[It’s okay, any pen is the same for me anyway]

Zhang Liying walked up to Yao Ge with the paper, and he was taken aback. Fortunately, she just walked off the podium habitually, and didn't pay attention to what Yao Ge was doing right under her nose.Yao Ge held up the paper and pretended to be reading the questions, while secretly replying on the note: "Class is over, goodbye."

In fact, it's okay if he doesn't reply directly, but he doesn't know why, as if it can't end without saying a concluding remark.It took 10 minutes for the note to be sent out, but it was sent back less than 2 minutes later. The desk behind the note came up and complained in a low voice: "There is no end, you two!"

Yao Ge felt a little sorry for bothering others, and carefully put the note into the textbook after reading the words [bye] in the back.